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Quebec's provincial government is injecting $C20m (£ 48m; $77m) into its hospitals as a short term measure to help solve the worst emergency room overcrowding crisis in recent memory.

That's $C5m more than the health and social services minister, Pauline
Marois, promised two weeks earlier. She got the additional funds by appealing to Prime Minister, Lucien Bouchard, after widespread media coverage of an overflow of patients in several centres, notably Montreal and Quebec City.